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Letter: “How I do it: retrosigmoid intradural inframeatal petrosectomy”

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  1. Neurosurgery Department, University Hospital S. Anna, Ferrara, Italy

    Marta Menegatti, Francesco Travaglini & Clarissa Ann Elisabeth Gelmi

  2. Department of Translational Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    Marta Menegatti, Francesco Travaglini & Clarissa Ann Elisabeth Gelmi

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Menegatti, M., Travaglini, F. & Gelmi, C.A.E. Letter: “How I do it: retrosigmoid intradural inframeatal petrosectomy”. Acta Neurochir 163, 2189–2190 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-021-04799-y

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